He has received endorsements from the majority of the country's provinces has the power of incumbency and emerged on top after bruising battles with his predecessor Jacob Zuma whose arrest in July last year sparked widespread unrest described by security chiefs as an insurrection...

Rivonia Circle is affiliated to the Defend Our Democracy movement (DoD) a coalition of some 60 civic organisations which campaigned against President Jacob Zuma's corruption-stained government (AC Vol 63 No 14 Zondo's game changer)...

If President Cyril Ramaphosa and his favoured candidates win in December and the prosecutions of ousted President Jacob Zuma and his allies go ahead he should be able to fend off the RET's pressure ahead of the 2024 elections...

Driving that trend is ousted President Jacob Zuma facing serial corruption charges and his allies in the Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction in the party...

But KZN's silence is causing worry in Ramaphosa circles and provincial insiders tell Africa Confidential that Dlamini-Zuma and Mkhize entering the race as well as former president Jacob Zuma wanting to make a return threatens to split the province's support for one candidate...

In August led by provincial chairman Sboniso Duma party leaders went to see Jacob Zuma at his Nklandla home...

Hain has campaigned for several years to flush out global corporations and banks that made billions of rand from their complicity in state capture and money-laundering mainly for the Gupta brothers with the aid of former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 58 No 12 Net closes around the Guptas)...

The newly elected radical KZN group – which answers to the name 'Taliban' – are loyal to former President Jacob Zuma who still wields huge influence in the province (AC Vol 63 No 16)...

Anyone who thought ex-President Jacob Zuma was a spent force within the ruling African National Congress had a rude awakening at the ninth KwaZulu-Natal elective conference on 22-24 July when his supporters swept the board of regional leadership posts...

A SONG TO ZUMA The legacy and theatrics of ousted President Jacob Zuma loomed large over the during the African National Congress's 22-24 July conference in KwaZulu-Natal...

But Dos Santos gained little kudos for that from South Africa's victorious African National Congress (ANC) many of whose leaders including Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma had long-standing disputes with the MPLA...

That cost the ANC votes when it emerged that the state had been paying for security work on ex-President Jacob Zuma's homestead (AC Vol 59 No 1 Pushing Zuma to the exit)...